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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 987245, member: 71"]
Not exactly.  A few months before offering the four schools mentioned the P-12 presidents (in a conference meeting) agreed to give authority to Scott to make expansion decisions.  At the time of the offer to the four B-12 schools, no further approval was necessary beyond an acceptance.  While this was happening, the bulk of the remaining B-12 schools were talking with the football members of the Big East, Oklahoma was looking into the SEC (but was handcuffed with OK St attached at the hip) Beebe (then B-12 commissioner) was trying to find a way to salvage the B-12 and Texas was looking to see what other offers were on the table.
 
The Pac to 16 expansion fell through when Beebe convinced the northern B-12 shools that they were better off becoming more subservient to UT and the conference (with ESPN's assistance) allowed Texas to remain and still launch the Longhorn network.  Once this happened Marinatto sent flowers to Beebe and a few months later the B-12 kicked Beebe to the curb.
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